Has the New Left begun to make formidable enemies in Jewish intellectual circles? Was this confrontation inevitable? Sixteen noted authorities describe and analyze the facets of a controversy that may have the profoundest implications both for contemporary radicalism and for the Jewish community.

Highlights include: the development of anti-Zionism within the New Left. ..anti-Semitism among black and white radicals... traditional Jewish liberalism versus New Left Jewish radicalism ... New Left views on Israel and possible solutions to the Middle East crisis.

The contributors represent all parties to the current debate—the splintered factions of the New Left (Noam Chomsky, Tom Kahn, Tom Milstein), the leftist press in the United States (Irving Howe); the Israeli left (Amos Kenan, Menachem S Arnoni, Saadia Gelb); international Jewish scholarship (Nathan Rotenslreich, Robert Alter, Marie Syrkin); and academic experts in the fields of sociology, contemporary history, and international politics (Robert Nisbet, Seymour M. Lipset, Walter Laqueur, Nathan Glazer, and Leonard Fein).

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